Ukraine: Let’s Get the Facts on the Table

Regardless of political position, everyone agrees Ukraine is in crisis of potentially international proportions.

Western corporate media reporting on Ukraine appears to focus attention on the protest movement, while failing to report all known facts. Without having all known facts on the table, there is a real risk of reaching the wrong conclusion, based on incomplete reporting.

The following is undisputed by all sides of the Ukrainian issue.

While Viktor F. Yanukovych was legitimately elected as President of Ukraine, many believed he was corrupt. The accusation of corruption gained credibility after protesters stormed his mansion and discover his lavish home firsthand.

In 1999 Russian and Ukrainian Parliaments ratified an agreement allowing Russia to station military forces in Ukraine. No one claims the 1999 Russian/Ukrainian agreement was violated.

During the Protests, The U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt participated in a phone call that was leaked on Youtube on February 4, 2014. In it they discuss regime change and opine who should be in power.

On February 21, 2014 Yanukovch and opposition representatives signed an agreement that included the following provisions:

The 2004 constitution will be restored within 48 hours, and a national unity government will be formed within 10 days

Constitutional reform balancing the powers of president, government and parliament will be started immediately and completed by September

A presidential election will be held after the new constitution is adopted but no later than December 2014, and new electoral laws will be passed

An investigation into recent acts of violence will be conducted under joint monitoring from the authorities, the opposition and the Council of Europe

The authorities will not impose a state of emergency and both the authorities and the opposition will refrain from the use of violence

Illegal weapons will be handed over to interior ministry bodies

The agreement was signed with the support of France, Poland, Germany, and Russia. Regarding the deal Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sirkorski tweeted that it was a “good compromise.” The White House even supported the agreement. The main purpose of the agreement was to deescalate Ukrainian Violence.

After the agreement was signed, On the evening of February 21, 2014, Yanukovch reports that while en route to Kharkov, Ukraine for a conference, before leaving Kiev, he and his escort car were personally subjected to gunfire by automatic weapons. He arrived at his destination, late that night. The next day, February 22, 2014, his security reported radical groups started arriving in Kharkov. As a result, he left on the recommendation of security.

On February 24, 2014, three days after the agreement was signed Yanukovch’s Chief of Staff, Andriy Klyuyev, was shot by protesters.

Enormous pressure on is being put on the Ukrainian Parliament with members having uninvited visitors in the night. During the day at least one member of Parliament was publicly beaten in front of the Parliament building by gunmen on the streets.

Paet further reports that most of the new government has a dirty past and there is no trust. He goes on:

what was quite disturbing, this same Olga told as well that all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides,”

“So that she then also showed me some photos she said that as a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened,”

“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,”

“it already discredits from the very beginning this new coalition

Clearly the violence has not deescalated and the opposition has not filled their side of the agreement requiring a disarmament of protesters with illegal weapons. The new coalition leadership is not trusted by citizens of Ukraine and now there is evidence that an unknown third party has deployed a sniper targeting groups on both sides of the Ukraine issue.

With these facts, Russia’s claim that Ukraine has been taken over by an unconstitutional coup doesn’t seem so implausible.

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you are spot on – these thugs are right sector
they stormed into the local council of Vasilkovo (somewhere in Ukraine) where local MPs gathered for an emergency meeting
so f”ing sad !! victoria nuland stated the other day that US government invested 5 billion dollars in ukrainian “democracy”
one of the articles on infowars mentioned that nearly 675000 people fled from Ukraine into Russia in fear since the beginning of this year alone
I have checked it – as i read russian – these are official figures from russian immigration and border controls
SO F”ING SAD

Whenever there is a coup in a country, it is it’s citizens that pay the price for those wanting power. Regarding infowars, I read the site sometimes as well, but I always fact check it, since sometimes it’s claims are unverifiable.

Great write up and summary! Just wanted to give ya a heads up to let ya know that the comment section of the Paet/Ashton video is getting trolled and there has been several comments that are stating it’s a fraud/fake/etc.

Please feel free to use our mirror if ya like as the description also contains the official “confirmation” text from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and direct link to their website.

Please note that we did re-title it for our targeted audience and we also have a couple of related summary pages re: Right Sector and Svoboda on our site that may possibly be of some interest…

Thank you for your interest in the article. I was pretty positive many of the sites online that discussed the facts on the ground were getting trolled. That said, I also saw that both parties to the phone call in question confirmed that it existed and occurred on or around February 26, 2014.

The only reason for mention the trolls is that many do not fact check anything and they will believe the comments, especially if they are “thumbed” up. Not only that but it seems as if most of the msm conglomerates have purposely ignored the importance of the information that the conversation brings to light. If you happen to have a link to Astons statement could you please pass it on?

Just so ya know, the reason this is so important to us is that we have a very unrepresentative and corrupt Regime here in Canada that has gained a majority based upon electoral manipulation and election fraud in the last 3 elections. This allows the PMO (Prime Ministers office) unlimited power to control the Opposition Party’s as well as every aspect of our media, which has completely ignored the Right Sector, Svoboda and the ultra-far right radicals. This lack of any acknowledgement of this latest revelation is very troubling.

Not only that, but Canada is the only member of the “5 Eyes” that has absolutely no oversight over our version of the NSA and when it was brought up in the House of Commons recently, the Harper Regime scoffed at the idea that any oversight was necessary even though the work the do violates our Constitution and charter of Rights and Freedoms. This is even more troubling as they have a free-pass and can perform all of the unconstitutional dirty work for all of the other partners.

On another related note, RT kinda broke the story wide open and considering there was a pretty public smear campaign yesterday vs RT after their popular anchor quit citing that RT “white washes” Putin’s related stories, implying that RT is nothing but Russian propaganda. She made the rounds pretty quick and even made an appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night.

Thanks for all this information in one place. Already knew all of this but it was spread all over the net and camoufaged with a lot of propaganda bulshit. Basically the west made coup with us financial support (apparently 5billion us dollars through us aid agency) ensured Ukraine followed the path of eastern europe and put as all on the bring of war with russia. There were also reports on “democracy now” that russia wanted to help Ukraine together with US EU and IMF which was flatly rejected. Clearly Ukraine`s new masters have their own Ideas what to do with the country. Let me guess, get it into debt which ukraine willnever be able to pay off, just like the rest of third world

This is the same playbook that was used against Venezuela in 2002 and tried originally in Ukraine in 2004.

The problem is that the IMF has state clearly and publicly austerity doesn’t work, so why continue to push for it as a precondition of financial assistance? Austerity and the drama occurring in Ukraine will turn it into a third world country if left unchecked. Because of all the unnecessary provocations, the only people who benefit from the continued unrest is Europe and the United States. Unfortunately, the unrest in Ukraine will create more in Europe as time goes on, again, if left unchecked.

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Be sure to take a look at this excellent summary “Ukraine: Let’s Get the Facts on the Table ” by One Citizen’s Opinion posted on March 5th for some excellent insight and analysis…